How to Create a Beach Theme in Any Room in Your Home

Putting together a beach themed room in my new home has been one of the funnest and most rewarding projects I have ever done.

You see me and my other half go on tropical vacations 2-3 times a year, however after recently becoming homeowners, vacations had to take a pause. I decided however to take vacation home with me by going about the task of turning one of our spare rooms into the beach/vacation/relaxation room.
I started by tearing up the old carpets on the floors and white washing the wood floors. This gave the room a really nice and beach like look.

Next I decided on room colors. I wanted the ocean to mix with the beach, so I went with Behr's blue Pool Party paint, and a nice sandy colored tan.

I however decided to go an extra mile with my beach theme by adding a textured sand grain into the sandy colored paint. This gave my walls a gritted texture that looks and feels like petrified sand. It really gave the room that extra bit of flair that I was looking for.

I painted the wood panels in this sand gritted paint, and the other 2 walls I used the blue pool party paint. Basically the room has 2 colors going on, and they mesh perfectly.

After painting my walls and the trim, the fun part was the furniture and the decor for the room.

I found some really beautiful old wood pieces of furniture at a local thrift store. I got extremely lucky when I found an old wood captain's chair as well. I decided to paint all of the furniture using the blue and tan colored paint I had left over from the walls. Low and behold, it came out wonderfully.

Next was decor, I used netting on one window, and added starfish and shells to the nets. On the other window I used beach themed lights around the other window. My lights are palms and flamingos.

To up it a notch I also nailed a fishing pole to a top wall, and allowed a lure to freely flow down the side of the walls. I have anchors that hold frames in place, and seagull figures on the walls. I also hooked some starfish to the walls for that extra bit of something.

Other extras included framed money that I got while abroad in the tropics, a hammock that we can relax in was hung from the walls, and other extras like snorkels, masks, surfboard themed items, and seashells displayed around the room just add to the flair.


Other things we still need to acquire include tin signs from crab shacks, no swimming due to sharks signs, surf lesson signs, antique lifeguard rings, and so on.

The beach themed room has been so fun, and it one of my favorite rooms in the house thus far.
Getting started is the hard part really, but once the walls are painted, furniture has been decided on, and floor colors chosen, everything from there comes together easily.